Last night Andy looked at a rip developing around one knee of his pants. He said,
I don’t care what the fashion is, I’m going to toss these out and put on a new pair.
January 14, 2020
No Fashion Here
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I would have died of embarrassment to wear ripped pants back in my teens and my parents would have been ashamed that they couldn’t afford new. Just crazy how that’s turned around and now they pay more for rips and holes.
I never wore ripped clothing, but I do remember putting cardboard in the bottom of my shoes because the soles had worn through. Money was tight and that didn’t show. 😀
I don’t like rips either. I can’t believe anyone would pay good money to buy a pair of jeans that are all ripped up. It just makes no sense to me.
It doesn’t to me, either.
If they have holes they get mended or tossed, we are a no holes family. Up heah, the hole make it a lot more chilly than necessary. 🙂 Never understood messing up a perfectly good pair of pants to be “fashionable”, but if that is what others want to do that is their business, but the wife and I agree that we will wear pants without holes. 🙂
I’m with you, if it makes them happy to be fashionable that’s fine — as long as we can still buy the clothes we like.
I wonder if it makes really poor people who are homeless and have tears in their clothing feel better or if it makes them feel people are condescending to them? it’s very odd. I would like to know why or what actually started it all.
like when the kids wore their pants so low it showed their butt crack. that started in prisons I think I read. that was another trendy look that was disgusting! and the look when they all walked around in clothes way to big for them. like toddlers playing dress up!
I doubt that the trend-setters worry much about what poor people think. It would be fun to know how this fad got started.
The peeps here don’t like rips either. Dad even makes Mom put iron-on patches when the elbows poke through his robe or pjs:)
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It’s been years since we’ve done that. Andy’s pants were a gazillion years old and getting worn out, this rip/worn-through spot was a sign to retire them.
I am the odd one out here. In one sense…it does not bother me for others to wear holes, and I will wear jeans that are ripped to work in. If they were good cotton jeans with none of the stretch stuff, I would patch. But it is so hard to get solid cotton anything around here. If they have the stretch…not worth the effort. Ask me how I know.
I have two pair of solid cotton denim jeans and have been looking and looking for more. There is one more place I hope to go to in a week or two. If I find any, you will probably hear me shout with joy.
I want all cotton and deep pockets. It ticks me off that they even pretend to put pockets in them. They won’t even hold my fist. I always have my keys and pocket knife in one pocket and my wallet in the other….I got started carrying my billfold in my pocket when I worked out all the time at the orchard, but then I could put it in back/hip pocket and I cannot now or it gets on a nerve. Half the front pockets will barely hold it.
I will not and would not when younger pay for pants already worn out.
I’m afraid we’re completely unfashionable and wear polyester pants. Mine are 100%, Andy’s are 85% poly/15% cotton, but we can sympathize with liking a product and not being able to find replacements. Good luck!
I don’t mend fast enough – but lately I have been mending, at first I felt I need to only wear it around home.
but lately just go off with the just above knee mend on a pair of semi cotton tights; and a light sweater, that I love has a bit of a mend on the front, but with semi-matching green colour, and if I take my side/over head bag neatly covers that…there is a larger mend near a side seam…one of my very elderly thermal tops has been “up close with some paint” but now I’ve stopped worrying about that…
if people ask, there is a story with every little extra…including some spots of what looks like caramel mud on one of the cuffs, which isn’t MUD but was the colour of the paint blend I was using…(book still WIP)
I’m not good with fast fashion or the semi-ripped look – but often the “mending” hasn’t caught up so something might have “hole” some place that when I look in a mirror, it’s just not visible.
I used to see the notion of mending meaning I couldn’t afford to buy a new something…but maybe my age and circumstance has changed that view.
I was looking at my closet clothes the other day and realised that I bought the fancy duds for Xmas 2018 trip, they have hardly seen the light of day, nor the gold lace up sneakers…either the day is overcast and cold, or the event I’m off to doesn’t seem right. I remember that on this last Xmas day, I would wear one of them, but my host said “nope not dressed up” arrived to find hostess in wonderful dress, all dressed up! I didn’t feel out of place but realised don’t listen to “the guy”….
enuff rabbiting….just typed and printed off quotes for next book series, now to rejig the layout as needed more signatures…many cover configurations have occurred bring it back to original which has a wider spine…
That wasn’t friendly of your host! Even if you didn’t feel out of place, you could have worn one of your fancy outfits.
“if people ask, there is a story with every little extra…” That sounds like a great way of handling it.
I threw out a pair of blue jeans I had worn holes in. SWMBO said, “You should have put those on eBay. You could have sold them for good money!”
😀